[Navy Patriot]

SF progressives...

[cripplecreek]

People said there would be the same in Detroit if the Tigers had won but I don’t see it. Detroit is a great baseball town with a great baseball crowd.

Now if the Pistons were to win a championship it might be a different matter but that’s a whole different crowd.

[A_Former_Democrat]

There go those “Angry White Males” again

[skeeter]

“There was a point in the night when the crowd changed and the real Giants fans went home,” police spokesman Sgt. Michael Andraychak said. “The people responsible for the damage most likely just took advantage of the win and used it as an excuse to be violent.”

Say what you want about the weirdos in the Castro, but this sort of A-hole isn't unique to San Francisco.

And the other night they had nothing to do with baseball.

[Brandonmark]

Practice session for the post-election loss scenarios!

[willibeaux]

Holder’s people?

[ridesthemiles]

To Chief Shur:

“You didn’t see this coming”???? Why not? the Lakers fans riot & trash Los Angeles when the Lakers win—why would the similar people who live in your city do anything differently????

The vusinesse community which currently exists in the Bay area deserves a better answer that that.

Oakland is right next door—they have been rioting & doing vandalism almost every night for the past year. It is to the point where the TV channels don’t even cover the events.

The Muni bus which was vandalized & burned:
Your community spend a MILLION DOLLARS for a transit bus? A MILLION DOLLARS & it was ‘just refurbished”??? What kind of fools are buying those busses on taxpayers money & what kind of savages are treating the busses in such a fashion that it just got a very expensive ‘refurbushing’???

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Police Chief Greg Suhr said his department did not anticipate the destructive behavior

oh my.

[chessplayer]

Police Chief Greg Suhr said his department did not anticipate the destructive behavior,

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Incompetent SOB. Anyone with even half a brain would have known this was coming.

[SJSAMPLE]

It would have been much, MUCH worse had Detroit won. I was there for the 1984 festivities.

However, given the state of Detroit, insurance could cover the entire city with $1.87 in damages.

[Wuli]

what say the Baseball Commissioner tell the mayors of the host cities in both leagues that, on behalf of the businesses and resident of each city, celebration riots in your city will result in the loss of the baseball team??

I wonder what steps the mayors and police forces would then take to prevent the loss of their team?

[GeronL]

San Fran values??

doubtful

I saw the pic, they were clothed...

[Trailerpark Badass]

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, which operates Muni, said it had invested approximately $1 million into the bus, which had been rehabbed and placed back into service last year.

Um, $1 million to rehab a bus?! How much do new busses cost?

Probably nnot allowed to buy new ones, but have to have them "rehabbed" through some graft-ridden union contract.

And CA wants to raise taxes.

[quadrant]

I live in the SOMA neighborhood of SF and about a mile from the intersection of 3rd and Market, the location of much of the vandalism that occurred after the Giants’ victory.
After the game ended, I wandered to Market St and stayed until about 30 minutes before the MUNI bus was as set on fire.
Even before the fire, the actions of many in the crowd was disgusting and juvenile, conduct more appropriate to Oakland than to SF.
The ethnic composition of the crowd was a mixed bag, and the vandalism I saw was committed by people of all different races and ethnic groups.
I'd like to think that those who committed the vandalism were from outside the City, but I have no way to confirm my hope.
Its a great shame that a great baseball victory was marred by the actions and conduct of not a few but of far too many.